Improved cheese-press



It consists combination of mechanism hereinafter described.

' waits-151mm SAMUEL BQMGOULLoUomoF ROOK sPnINcs, MARYLAND, NDJOHN It. wss'aos LAN OASTER. coUnTY, LOUGH.

PENNSYLVANIA; SAID 'WEST ASSIGNS T0 SAID .MGOUL- Lenmmm 1v .92,201, dated ,hay c, 1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaking of the same.

Tonll whom it may concern,

Be it known that we, SAMUEL B. MCCULLOUGH, of Rock Springs, in the" county of Cecil, and State of Maryland, and J CHN 1t.' WEST, of Lancaster county, in the State of Pennsylvania, .have invented certain new and useful In'iprovements in Cheese-Presses; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theV same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makingr a part of this specilication, in which- Figui-e2. represents an upright-or 4vertical section vofthe press. l

4Figure 2 shows a plan or top view of' the same.

The object ot'onrinvention is to get a more uniform andv -equal pressure on both the top and bottomof cheese; and

in the construction, arrapgement, and

quired size or dimensions, withtwo-nprightposts, A A, supported fon hasehlocks, B B. Ata suitable height from thehottom,` is framed i'n a strong cross-timber, also near the top of the posts AA', a similarl cross-nunmal), in the centrel of which timbers, Gand. D, are litted, and permanently secured, right and left screws, a b, which pointtowardsl each' other, aml extendahout one-third' of the distance, each, of the vspace'between the thune-timbers 0 and -D.

0n the 'lower timber O is secured a circular table,

jE, with an -elevate'rledge or rim, e e, to receive. aml- ,conduct ofi' any whey or drippings that may he' e.\

ypressed from the cheese.l

Above, and-resting onthe table E, are two verticalv posts, F. E, they having longv slits or-'mortises f f,' near hoth ends, into which are strong cross-pieces, yGr

and H, littod,fso as to slide easily in the mortises f f, they heilig' provided with or forming thehoxes in which vthe lightr and left screws c b operate.l To the uppersidefofhe'piece G, and the 'under side ot' the verticali posts v piece'H, are atlached supports or pillars hh, to which thehllowersl 1 are secured, they being ot such size and shapegas to' tit. into cheese-cord is placed to he pressed; there heilig projections or ledges, '-ii, ou the inside of the verticalposts, F' lyon which vthe lim of the hoop Jrests,

I. while-the foiloweis LIenterthe-lloop' simultaneously from they bottom and top, and produce' an equal :nnount of pressure on'y both, as the vertical tiamerouites within the stationary traine, .by which means the pressure isproduced. i vv'314cm' "the, top, orat :my convenient place on the F, may 'be placed' a .gear-wheel or 'whchacug-wheel cr pinion,`vk, operates rinnvK, vinto 1 toturnthelianie in which -the cheese is' placed, lthe 'right und lett-screws 3a and l forming the centre, and

thel hoop J in which .the

To thetshalt'of the pinionc, which extends through l one of the upright posts A, may be 'secured a pulley or drum, L, ot' any desired size, over which arrope, mf, niay be wound, and-so attached that a weightr M, may he hitched on, and a continuons pressure he kept up by`tl1e=slow rotating of the vertical frame.

"lhere may also bea crank, n, on the pinion-shaft, .or a clank-pin or handle in the face of the drum or `pulley L, hy Vwhiclrmeans the fraaie containing the 'cheese and followers` I I, may be turned in either direc'tion to run the followers up or down. V,'tlhe leverage from a large-sized drum or pulley,

('.onuceted to the shai't, on which a small-sized vpinion y:works in the large-size cog-wheel on theveiiical frame, multiplies power to snclLan extent that it requires hut a small weight to .press a cheese suticiently ai'ter the lollowers-a're brought to hear firmly on the cnrdv, -in thohooip hylurniugsthe vertical flame by hand.

A very good and etiicient cheese-press may he made l'hy dispensing \vith.the gearing-pulley and weight, as above described,- and have a cord or rope di awn iiom aliorizontal rilnon thavert-ical flaini.l in the place of the cog-wheel, and over a pulley or sjleave in the post, with "a weigh't attached on the outside.

And a still more simple press may he ,constructed by dispensing 'with all the mechanism to turn the vertical frame by gravity or other power, to' work it automatically, but when the cheese is in, and heingpressed, -occasiqmally take hold ofthe l'rame and give it a tnrn or two, as it may hear, while the particles of the cheese are heilig compacted together. A It is well known toL cheese-makers, that the top or side of a cheese on which the follower heals, is pressed the hardest. .4 The :friction of the strainer or cloth in which the curd 'isplaccd in the hoop, prevents the pressure from being equal on both top and bottom.

It will readily .b e seen' by our -constrnction of the press, with twofollowers, working exactly alike, and nt the same time on both sidcs of the cheese,fthc defeet is enti-rely.remedied. j y i Havingthus fully described our invention, f

whatwe claim as new, yand desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s- A The ariangementof the cgg-gcar'whcel K, pinion k, drun L, cordonropc m, and weight M, whencom- 

